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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 19, 20237 min read
How to Build a Life: Everyday Magic, Day 1089
How to build a life is really up to the person living that life, but after carrying this topic around in my head for a while, I realized...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 26, 20133 min read
Take the Long Way Home: Everyday Magic, Day 743
Sid Vicious memorial party because it’s simply another reason to have a party Supertramp’s “Take the Long Way Home” was at its height in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 14, 20132 min read
You Can Go Home Again Even If It’s Someone Else’s Home: Everyday Magic, Day 740
Residents present and past Within moments, Adam, the man who lives with his wife in the house where I lived from ages eight to 19, was...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 17, 20132 min read
When I Was Growing Up: Everyday Magic, Day 717
When I was growing up, a high school teacher would stretch forth one arm, drop his wrist dramatically, swish, and imitate Charles Nelson...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 9, 20132 min read
Happy 18th Birthday, Forest!: Everyday Magic, Day 702
Labor itself took a while, but that’s so Forest too. After who-knows-how-many-hours of contradictions, I had a simply thought: “To hell...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 18, 20122 min read
Nine Years After Dad Died: Everyday Magic, Day 485
Sitting in my friend’s living room this morning while her husband slept in a hospital bed beside us, we talked about the hospice services...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 11, 20123 min read
Dance Like No One’s Watching: Everyday Magic, Day 480
I was the girl who, at age six wearing my Russian peasant bright orange tutu, lost her balance and knocked over the whole line of little...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 15, 20114 min read
If These Jobs Could Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 412
Late at night instead of counting sheep, I counted jobs, wondering what story and history they would tell for me, and by extension, you...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 21, 20112 min read
Letting Go Of My (Divorce) Girl: Everyday Magic, Day 372
Me a few years before I began writing this book in my head Today I finished my final revision on my novel, The Divorce Girl, which is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 21, 20112 min read
Welcome to Adulthood!: Everyday Magic, Day 356
“Welcome to adulthood!”I told my 19-year-old daughter yesterday as she waited in line in a bank with a migraine. She had just told me, “I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20112 min read
Good News, Bad News, 123: Everyday Magic, Day 301
Growing up in Brooklyn, we played a gamed called “Red Light, Green Light, 123” which consisted of standing with my forehead to a tree,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 5, 20111 min read
The Girl and the Luna Moth: Everyday Magic, Day 289
When Natalie was 10, our friend Coco took a beautiful picture of her with a lunar moth on her birthday, April 28, which happens to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 1, 20112 min read
What Bad Taste I Have: Everyday Magic, Days 284-285
Driving home from Kansas City late last night, a blast from the past transported me back to being a kid, jumping on my bed in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 31, 20112 min read
The Novel is FINALLY Being Published!: Everyday Magic, Day 196
How many years have I been writing The Divorce Girl? On paper since Forest was a creeping critter (now he’s a giant), and in my head for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20103 min read
Remembering Ben, A Giant With a Giant Heart: Everyday Magic, Day 165
I met Ben in 1974 while working at my father’s stand, where I was ordered by my dad to stand on an old wooden table and yell out, “Two...
